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Amber Haque

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
167 total appearances

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Fame Under Fire
Brooklyn Beckham, Brand Beckham, and family fallout

And the language really jumps out to me in this, Molly, because Brooklyn has used some specific terms here.

Fame Under Fire
Brooklyn Beckham, Brand Beckham, and family fallout

So we said, for example, that his mum chose to dance with him on the wedding and it was inappropriate.

Fame Under Fire
Brooklyn Beckham, Brand Beckham, and family fallout

I

Fame Under Fire
Brooklyn Beckham, Brand Beckham, and family fallout

He's also used the term facade that his parents and their team, they leak and shape the narrative and the Beckham brand is all a facade.

Fame Under Fire
Brooklyn Beckham, Brand Beckham, and family fallout

In PR terms, why can language like that be so damaging sometimes?

Fame Under Fire
Brooklyn Beckham, Brand Beckham, and family fallout

All of this, you know, even looking at some of the comments underneath the Instagram posts, of course, you get people on both sides of the camp, so to speak, that some people are saying this is, you know, the eldest child who's grown up with all this trauma around him finally feeling like he can speak out.

Fame Under Fire
Brooklyn Beckham, Brand Beckham, and family fallout

But there is also on the other side, people saying that the Beckhams are real.

Fame Under Fire
Brooklyn Beckham, Brand Beckham, and family fallout

You know, they're going through something that all families can go through.

Fame Under Fire
Brooklyn Beckham, Brand Beckham, and family fallout

And actually, it sort of humanises them.

Fame Under Fire
Brooklyn Beckham, Brand Beckham, and family fallout

Molly's painted a picture there of how the story is being perceived in the States.

Fame Under Fire
Brooklyn Beckham, Brand Beckham, and family fallout

But Nick, how huge of a story actually is this?

Fame Under Fire
Brooklyn Beckham, Brand Beckham, and family fallout

Yeah, I think as a story, it ticks so many boxes of things that the public are intrigued by.

Fame Under Fire
Brooklyn Beckham, Brand Beckham, and family fallout

It's things that can feel deeply relatable.

Fame Under Fire
Brooklyn Beckham, Brand Beckham, and family fallout

We all have families.

Fame Under Fire
Brooklyn Beckham, Brand Beckham, and family fallout

Everybody has their tensions, you know, of their own sort of kind.

Fame Under Fire
Brooklyn Beckham, Brand Beckham, and family fallout

But people feel that it can burst that bubble of celebrity as well, that they are more accessible and real and fractured than we might like to think from a distance.

Fame Under Fire
Brooklyn Beckham, Brand Beckham, and family fallout

What do we think could happen next then, Molly?

Fame Under Fire
Brooklyn Beckham, Brand Beckham, and family fallout

Yeah.

Fame Under Fire
Brooklyn Beckham, Brand Beckham, and family fallout

Thank you both so much for unpacking that with me.

Fame Under Fire
Brooklyn Beckham, Brand Beckham, and family fallout

Definitely on both sides of the Atlantic, people just cannot get enough of the story.